This Pastor Has Nothing to Say

I am currently on a tour in the Holy Land with a group of people which includes a fellow UMC pastor. During our devotional time this morning, she told us about baptizing an elderly, non-responsive man in the last days of his life. When he encountered the baptismal...

Let me say this.  Mental health issues stink!  We (my husband and I) have been dealing with them all week.  It was bad enough when it was a stranger who showed up at the church because he really had no other place to go.  At least we could talk to him.  We could feed...

I had the opportunity this week to visit with a long time member of my church who is now in an assisted living facility and is therefore no longer able to come to church.  This is not so unusual in the life of a pastor, especially in mainline denominations.  We had to...

It's been a while since I was here.  If you are following my blog page, you have a small clue as to why.  As is the life of any United Methodist pastor, I have moved to a new appointment nearly 500 miles away from my last one.  I had to separate my blog from my former...

It's been a long time since I was here, because life happens.  We have been dealing with medical issues at my house since last spring.  We finally seem to be on the downhill side of that.  Thank you, Jesus!  So now it is time to start working on all of those extra...

You know that feeling where you are the plate spinner at the circus and all your plates are wobbling and about ready to fall? Only this is real life and if one plate drops it means something important comes crashing down?  Yeah, that feeling.  That is where I have...

Remiss:  lacking care or attention to duty; negligent.  That is the definition that Google gave me.  It is fitting.  I have been remiss in tending to my blog lately.  It is partly because I haven't really had much to blog about, but it is mostly because my schedule...

I just changed my day off so I could participate in an activity that is near and dear to my heart and see my grandkids more often.  I am now working on Fridays.  Today is my first one working since I came to Post three years ago.  I knew going in that the church...

Like many of you, I suspect, I have been watching the Olympics when I am not at work.  I admit it.  I am an Olympics junkie.  I will flip through the various television channels to find something to watch until it  I am almost late getting back to the office after...

After seminary, which I completed in 2015, I didn't want to look at another book.  I especially didn't want to look at a book that someone told me I had to read.  It didn't matter if it was one that someone thought I would enjoy or if it was one that I was supposed to...